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Non-web internet in 2026: what still lives

By Lev on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 21:18:24

Latest reply by John McCue on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 23:12:34
Vibe coding toward the incident horizon

By Ben Collver on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 14:12:49

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A Clever Idea From Microsoft?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 00:37:30

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Are Social Networks Themselves In Danger From The AI Onslaught?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, March 15, 2026 22:46:39

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The Librarians, free to watch on PBS

By Ben Collver on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 13:34:58

Latest reply by John McCue on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 16:24:52
The 49 MB Web Page

By Ben Collver on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 00:13:45

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Are YouTube Downloaders Only For The Command-Line Literati?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, March 15, 2026 22:53:13

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Friday The 13th

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, March 14, 2026 21:58:50

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How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret

By Ben Collver on Sunday, March 08, 2026 14:39:38

Latest reply by Computer Nerd Kev on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 07:19:07
cross-posted articles

By D on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 19:59:10

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How The Internet Got Gentrified

By Ben Collver on Sunday, March 08, 2026 17:05:43

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?? Parliament Leaves Xwitter

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, February 20, 2026 06:37:58

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Norwegian Consumer Council PSA

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, March 06, 2026 03:03:12

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, March 07, 2026 22:58:58
new NUCs and O365 cloud accounts; the new thin client

By Retrograde on Sunday, March 01, 2026 17:25:17

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Thursday, March 05, 2026 19:29:59
never buy a .online domain

By Retrograde on Thursday, March 05, 2026 13:45:38

Latest reply by Retrograde on Thursday, March 05, 2026 13:45:38
Steve Jobs in Exile

By Retrograde on Sunday, March 01, 2026 17:59:32

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, March 02, 2026 00:39:26
testing digital sovreignty: a new RedHat tool

By Retrograde on Sunday, March 01, 2026 17:48:24

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, March 01, 2026 21:36:56
Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To ?Jailbreak? Their F-35 Fighters

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 22:53:41

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Friday, February 27, 2026 18:55:00
CSS Is Now Turing-Equivalent

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 23:15:32

Latest reply by Kerr-Mudd, John on Thursday, February 26, 2026 13:02:01
... is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell y

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, January 11, 2026 20:28:34

Latest reply by Vanadium on Sunday, February 22, 2026 03:04:47
?Rock-Solid? FreeBSD

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, December 19, 2025 07:33:33

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, February 21, 2026 21:31:57
A Library Of ... Books?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, February 13, 2026 05:48:46

Latest reply by Bob Eager on Saturday, February 21, 2026 00:55:53
People can?t find jobs, jobs can?t find people; who?s to blame?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, January 04, 2026 00:41:00

Latest reply by Aharon Robbins on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 13:56:21
Origins Of PipeWire

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, February 16, 2026 08:05:28

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Re: chatbots

By Scott Dorsey on Sunday, February 08, 2026 09:44:03

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Floppy Disk TV Remote

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, January 19, 2026 07:29:06

Latest reply by Steven Thomsen-Jones on Saturday, February 07, 2026 21:57:23
Re: Europe Continues March Towards ?Digital Sov ereignty?

By vallor on Saturday, February 07, 2026 03:48:27

Latest reply by vallor on Saturday, February 07, 2026 03:48:27
Europe Continues March Towards ?Digital Sovereignty?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, January 29, 2026 23:25:22

Latest reply by Bruce on Friday, January 30, 2026 23:14:33
?Get The Data? Link On News Article

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 00:15:08

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 00:15:08
?The Apple Mac turned 42 this weekend ? we are still using the WIMP GUI

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, January 25, 2026 19:44:10

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, January 25, 2026 19:44:10
What?s The Most Pointless Kind Of Spam?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, January 22, 2026 07:54:14

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, January 23, 2026 20:49:04
BitBucket Seem To Be Blocking A Specific Version Of Firefox

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, January 19, 2026 05:46:26

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, January 19, 2026 20:19:03
The Next Thing Will Not Be Big

By Ben Collver on Sunday, January 18, 2026 21:07:28

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Always Wonder Where These Images Come From ...

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, January 16, 2026 20:39:31

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Windows Podcast manager

By Chris J Dixon on Thursday, January 15, 2026 20:36:29

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Friday, January 16, 2026 18:50:05
RISC-V PC Motherboard

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 20:34:49

Latest reply by Anssi Saari on Friday, January 16, 2026 11:21:59
Media Monkey

By Chris J Dixon on Thursday, January 15, 2026 20:15:56

Latest reply by Bob Eager on Thursday, January 15, 2026 21:26:16
Memory usage

By Sylvia Else on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 20:32:31

Latest reply by Computer Nerd Kev on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 07:31:36
Fallacies Advocating Software Bloat

By Ben Collver on Sunday, December 21, 2025 16:13:36

Latest reply by Anthk NM on Monday, January 12, 2026 07:23:22
DMCA Takedown On Free Software

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 21:40:25

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From Gaming To The Enterprise Data Centre

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, December 24, 2025 20:36:07

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, December 24, 2025 20:36:07
AWK Technical Notes

By Ben Collver on Thursday, December 18, 2025 19:08:07

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, December 18, 2025 20:23:33
Re: [NEWS] 2degrees begins 3G shutdown

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, December 14, 2025 23:41:25

Latest reply by Your Name on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 16:26:24
Google AI Recipe Extinction Event

By Ben Collver on Tuesday, December 16, 2025 15:20:48

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 13:28:10
Last Quarter I Rolled Out Microsoft Copilot

By Ben Collver on Sunday, December 14, 2025 16:12:38

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 00:57:22
The DoorDash Problem: Amazon Sues Perplexity

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, November 21, 2025 21:00:12

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, December 14, 2025 09:06:38
Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2025

By Ben Collver on Saturday, December 13, 2025 18:42:01

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Saturday, December 13, 2025 18:42:01
Under 40's Declining Memory

By Ben Collver on Sunday, November 16, 2025 16:23:00

Latest reply by Anssi Saari on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 12:51:33
How To Use The Internet Again

By Ben Collver on Sunday, November 23, 2025 15:13:14

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, November 24, 2025 23:06:04
The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can suppor

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, November 21, 2025 03:16:32

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Friday, November 21, 2025 17:10:03
HP And Dell Disable HEVC (H.265) Support Built Into Their Laptops? CPUs

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, November 21, 2025 03:03:29

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, November 21, 2025 03:03:29
Grok AI Chatbot Says Elon Musk Is Best At Everything

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 20, 2025 23:34:07

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 20, 2025 23:34:07
The Dream of Coding Without Coders

By Ben Collver on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 20:59:50

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 20, 2025 19:44:18
From Git To Fossil SCM

By Ben Collver on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 17:11:27

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 20, 2025 08:17:35
Why Google And Apple Are Blurring The Face Of The ?Dominion Road Boy?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 09:12:58

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 14:00:09
Glitch Tokens

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, November 16, 2025 01:51:43

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, November 16, 2025 01:51:43
Is ?Performant? A Word?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 08:55:04

Latest reply by Mechanicjay on Saturday, November 15, 2025 17:06:39
If I Buy Something, Do I Own It?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, November 14, 2025 19:59:45

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, November 14, 2025 19:59:45
Even A Cheap Little Microcontroller Can Emulate A 386-Based PC Now

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 23:48:50

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 23:48:50
JP Morgan?s Predictions For AI Profitability

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 09:06:31

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 09:06:31
Nope. No CG Here

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, November 08, 2025 22:53:37

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, November 08, 2025 22:53:37
Microsoft 365 Billing Screwup Refund Is Another Screwup

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 06, 2025 21:10:28

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, November 08, 2025 21:21:43
Affinity now free

By Chris J Dixon on Sunday, November 02, 2025 07:39:01

Latest reply by Adrian Caspersz on Friday, November 07, 2025 19:32:09
Geek Joke

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 06, 2025 00:12:58

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, November 06, 2025 20:04:46
Industrial and medical devices struggle to upgrade to Windows 11

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, November 01, 2025 04:10:51

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Wednesday, November 05, 2025 17:32:11
Remote ?Kill Switch? On A Home Appliance

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sunday, November 02, 2025 03:38:43

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The World?s Most Valuable Companies

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, October 30, 2025 00:00:59

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So I Got One Useful Answer Out Of AI ...

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 05:48:17

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Re: More fun with PKCS-12 files. This time with macOS 26 and MDM!

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 03:16:12

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?An Unnecessarily Complicated Way Of Starting Your PC? -- Like A Fighte

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 27, 2025 22:24:07

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People Are Putting A Scary Amount Of Trust In AI ...

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 27, 2025 04:42:22

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New Phone, Old Dumb Charger

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Saturday, October 18, 2025 03:38:27

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Friday, October 24, 2025 00:53:59
The Internet Is Broken

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 20, 2025 22:33:39

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Eagle Mode -- A Zoomable User Interface

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 13, 2025 08:58:56

Latest reply by Theo on Monday, October 20, 2025 15:26:16
Apple?s Polishing Cloth Is M5-Ready

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, October 16, 2025 00:06:53

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Sunday, October 19, 2025 14:09:13
Half A Year On Alpine

By Ben Collver on Sunday, October 12, 2025 16:01:27

Latest reply by Jim Jackson on Monday, October 13, 2025 15:32:06
The Way To A Man?s Heart Is Through His ... Graphics Card!??

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 13, 2025 01:13:24

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 13, 2025 01:13:24
Meta Claims Instagram Scrolling Not ?Intentionally Addictive?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Monday, October 06, 2025 07:26:04

Latest reply by Jason H on Friday, October 10, 2025 21:12:02
This Is Why Software Folks Should Not Design Hardware

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thursday, October 09, 2025 01:44:53

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usenet search

By D on Thursday, October 09, 2025 01:38:15

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Qualcomm To Buy Arduino

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wednesday, October 08, 2025 00:14:37

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Retro-Inspired Cases Are To PCs What The Morris Minor Was To Cars

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Saturday, September 20, 2025 01:55:46

Latest reply by Rich on Sunday, September 21, 2025 01:34:10
Are We Sixel Yet?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 09:29:42

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Saturday, September 20, 2025 03:36:54
The Role Of The Media To Rein In Big Tech

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, September 18, 2025 22:00:16

Latest reply by Your Name on Friday, September 19, 2025 11:38:20
Re: pbm2braille (was: Are We Sixel Yet?)

By Eli the Bearded on Friday, September 19, 2025 04:26:32

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Meta Learned The Wrong Lesson From Frances Haugen

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, September 11, 2025 01:00:16

Latest reply by Jason H on Monday, September 15, 2025 20:32:48
Book to catch up on current AI?

By Mike Spencer on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 01:40:52

Latest reply by Bruce on Monday, September 15, 2025 17:44:40
If You Buy Something, Do You Own It?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, September 11, 2025 23:12:34

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Sunday, September 14, 2025 23:11:30
File/Directory Unification

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Sunday, September 14, 2025 07:07:28

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Cisco Switches And TLS

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 01:13:10

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Mimecast Email Trouble

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Saturday, September 06, 2025 10:01:40

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Fighting Back When The Computer Says =?UTF-8?B?WW914oCZcmU=?= Wrong ..

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Saturday, September 06, 2025 09:04:12

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A Developer Watching QA Test The Product

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, September 04, 2025 11:13:34

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, September 04, 2025 11:13:34
Re: Bye-Bye Dialup USA

By Nyssa on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 22:08:24

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=?UTF-8?B?QW1hem9u4oCZcw==?= NZ$7.5 billion =?UTF-8?B?4oCcSW52ZXN0bWVu

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Tuesday, September 02, 2025 18:13:18

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"a.i." philosophy

By D on Tuesday, September 02, 2025 04:46:54

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Re: Hacker News: Y Combinator's San Francisco offices need to be shot

By Retrograde on Saturday, August 30, 2025 09:14:14

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Re: more Android lockdown

By mm0fmf on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 17:57:38

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Re: OBS Studio 31.1.2 (works with ublock origin)

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, August 28, 2025 09:20:34

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Thursday, August 28, 2025 09:20:34
ARM Looking To Build Its Own Hardware?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 08:22:00

Latest reply by Sn!pe on Monday, August 25, 2025 08:31:54
Micro SD Card

By ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net on Thursday, August 21, 2025 08:29:24

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Re: long live the nub (Thinkpad)

By Computer Nerd Kev on Friday, August 22, 2025 08:37:28

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Re: Arbitrary And Capricious Social Media Bans

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Friday, August 22, 2025 07:32:38

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Re: GitHub To Be Folded More Tightly Into Microsoft

By Jason H on Saturday, August 16, 2025 00:02:38

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Presenting ... The =?UTF-8?B?4oCcQ3liZXJkZWNr4oCd?=

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 11:25:04

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